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Farm and Garden Notes.

Turnips are standard good food fol
sheep.
This is the season to feed sunfower
seeds to fowls.
Water animals in their stalls during
severe weather.
Take your choice; kill the lice or let
them kill the calves.
Feed the crops on the farm and get
the full market price.
Wouldn't it pay to look little into
the fertilizer question this winter2
A good steer is worth more than an
indifferent bull, and keeps with half the
trouble.
Before putting up new pork it is i'm.
portant to make sure that the barrel is
perfectly sweet.
Bloody meat or blood from the slaugh-
ter house, rubbed upon the trunks of
trees, will repel rabbits.
Clear up dead vines, old stakes. bean
poles, ETC., burn the rubbish and store
whatever Is worth keeping.
. Crushed oats stepped in boiling water
and fed cool but not cold is said to fatten
hogs quickly and make fine meat.
Ed. Curtis thinks farmer does not
come up to his privileges who fails to
have a small flock of mutton sheep.
Provide, without fail, for the dust bath
during the winter season, when the fowls
cannot scratch in the open ground.
Don't think the cow will be insulted
if you give her friendly pat every time
you are within reach of her. Such pats
are returned in pats of butter
Professor Storer thinks a ration of
thirty pounds of pumpkin per cow daily
will increase the flow and improve the
quality of milk. Pumpkin seeds should
he removed before feeding.
Mr.. T. D. Carter. good authority, says
good silage, properly fed, is nourishing,
reliable, and produces good results. The
milk is sweet and rich, and it improves
the churning quality of the cream.
A dairyman says he would prefer to
spend all the proceeds of the dairy for
feed during February, March and April,
LOT luStauCc, ultl iOOh W tlC lCoL VI IhO
year for profits, than to slack up on feed,
evca with dry COWS.
Farmers are beginning to find out that
it is not paying them to husk, grind and
mix fe: d for stock; that the corn that is
fed on the farm should never be separ-
ated from the stalk on which it grew,
but fed together, and save at least one
fourth of the labor and the uncallcd fol
expenses of husking and grinding.
A mixture of half bushel of lime, q
half pound of copperas and one pound
of cheap glue has been found effectual
as paint applied to the stems of young
trees to repcl rabbits in winter. Slako
the lime, and whcn>it cools add the cop.
reras, glue aud sufficient water to make
of proper consistency. Apply with a
brush.
An English writer condemns corn fed
pork as u compound which does not
commend itself to the tastes of those who
have an opportunity of enjoying pork
compounded from oatmeal, wheat meal,
pea meal and potatoes. Duncm'% Mug.
a.ine says: Crowding corn, and nothing
but corn, into hogs from the time of birth
to the time Of slaughter is unnatural and
unreasonable,
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Winter Care of Tools.

Did any one ever see a farm with too
much shed room! Vehicles, tools and
implements accumulate on every farm
homestead, and storage room has to be
continually increased, or else something
must be left out in the weather. Shed
room is too valuable to be filled up with
trash, and this is good time to do q
little sorting. If On implement Is worth
keeping at all, it is worthy of shelter; if
not worth place under cover, it should
be divided between the wood-pile and
the box or heap of old iron.
AS wintera approaches it is true economy
to overhaul the farm machinery, clean it
up and sec that all is properly housed.
Running q wagon, mower or harrow
out into the sun, on some fine morning in
November or December, let dry clean
ing be first in order. This can he done
very well with the stump of an old
broom, although there will be corners
and cracks in which the mud or dust
must be scraped with sharp stick or old
case-knife. This done, it will often
appear that thorough washing will
better clean both wood and metal; if so,
wash by all means, and give time to
fully dry. Every implement thus cleaned
should be we'll coated with oil before
final storage for winter. When oiled
the parts should be quite dry, and a
sunny day is preferable. The cheapest
and most satisfactory oil for this purpose
is heavy, crude petroleum. With pot
of this oil and an old pant brrsh coat
every portion CT both wood and metal.
All rust is arrested, and the oil is
almost equal to coat of paint for the
woodwork of farm tools. In this and
numerous other ways I find crude
petroleum very uscfnl on the farm, and
always like to have it on hand. Bought
by the barrel it can be got for seven to
nineteen cents gallon, freight in
cluded, plus the barrel, which can be
used, when empty, in SO many ways that
it is we'll worth all it costs.-Ame:iean
T.,b
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What 1t Ia to be a Christian.

A son who had fallen by intemperance,
writes to his father: 81 think will Join the
church as know it will be great help to
me in trying to do right. 1 hope that, some
time, may be able to tell you that am
Christian. That is what want to be-"
The father replied: II do not wish to say
anything to discourage or retard your JOIN
ing the church, only to urge that the step be
well considered and taken from right mo
tiyes. The true idea Of the church, in my
thought, is that it is, or ought to be composed
of C6ristians-Ch -Christs friends and followers
and servants; not protesting or claiming
to be better than others, but confessing
themselves to be sinners, even as
others, who have felt their need OF be.
ing saved from their corrupt and depraved
selves-from their sin, as well as from us
consequences-and who accept, believe on,
and embrace Jesus the Christ as the only,
the God-given, almighty, and loving Saviour
of sinners condemned, lost, unable to save
themselve but by His grace and help; and
who, thus accepting and closing in with
Him, yield themselves wholly to Him in
gratitude and love, to be His entirely, to be
kept by Him, to live by faith in Him, with
Him, and for Him now and forever; and
who, in so embracing Him, receive and en-
joy as His free gift, His offered pardon and
grace; and all this by the light and life-giv-
So the loved and loing Apostle John writes
of Him d.: IL, 49,: GAS many as received
Him, to them gave He power to become the
sons of God, even to them that believe on His
name, which were born, not Of blood, nor of
the viii of the flesh, nor of the will of man,
but of God"
So one may not properly enter the church
merely as ON infirmary or hospital or school,
to be helped and cured and educated, but as
-, ~. b. fnno
Him, follow, love, obey and revere Him in
the sincere devotion Of gratitude and love.
You "want to be a Christian" See what
it is.
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TEMPERANCE.
The Drunkard's Home.

The DrunkardS Home.
saw two children playing
In tenement old and mean,
One was ragged and dirty,
The other was neat and clean.
On the floor there lay baby,
Only two months old, ...v
Rolled up in small bit blanket, x.
Shivering with hunger and cold.
On the wall there hung a picture
VI q girl most wondrous fair;
Her face was q marvel Of beauty,
Without line Of sorrow or care.
was making that picture my study,
When one Of the little ones said
Dat Is me own dea mama,
Before papa and she were we'd.
"She be not like dat any more
Cause papa is doin' wild
He tums home ey'y evenin' dunk
And beats dear mama and child.
I" Yes, beats dat little baby,
And stikes dear. mama's head;
Last night he stik'd her wild de poker,
And now she's lynn dead"
The little one lifted blanket,
Beneath, there lay in blood
The wife Of that wretched drunkard,
The wreck of Mistress Flood.
The brow had now lines Of sorrow,
The face was picture of care
How chang'd from the picturd girlhood!
And the face 20 wondrously fair!
The first, the picture Of an angel,
The second, the wife of a sot;
Yet her soul it was unblemished
And has gone where the sot's cannot.
ID. S. Mcpherson.
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" mo Mans Land" ="

A Washington correspondent writes to
the New York Herald, as follows:
There is tract of land lying south of
Kansas and Colorado, and between the
Indian Territory and New Mexico, which
has been known for many years as "No
Mans Land" 1t has this name because
by errors in surveys, by exclusions in
acts of Congress, fixing boundaries and
general neglect and inadvertence it lies
outside of any organized State or Terri
tory of the United States. Il is really q
"No Mans Land" for no courts have
Jurisdiction within its bounds; no laws
extend over or apply to it: its lands can
not be owned, because Congress has not
authorized their sale. mo Mans Land"
is simply a spot on the map.
A tolerably large spot, for it contains
1851, $50 acres, being 167 miles long by
341 wide. 1t is fertile, we'll watered,
has valuable deposits of Goa, fine CHI
mate. and, being almost all good land, a
government report says that it has the
raw material for %, 900 farms OF 160 acres
each.
Itwas for years huge cattle run. 1t con-
tains at present 10, 900 American farmers,
who have sent one Of their number, Mr.
O. G.. Chase, here to ask Congress In their
name to give them Territorial govern
ment, with the laws and protection of
the flag which they are so totally and
singulariy without. They have agreed
to call their Territory Cimarron, from its
principal river, and if Congress is as kind
to them as their good conduct deserves
the present winter will see established
the Territory of Cimarron. .a '..
These ten thousand Americans went
into No Mans Land, knowing that the
land they settled on and cultivated they
could get no legal title to unless Congress
would act for their protection; knowing
that no crime, not even murder, committed
in No Mans Land could be punished,
because no courts, no law officers, no
laws, took cognizance of what was done
in NJ Mans Land. They hadno author
ity to form government; no power to
levy taxes for the simplest or most
necessary purposes; no power to make
laws which any inhabitant need obey.
Chaos was their enforced condition.
Yet these ten thousand have founded
towns, built schoolhouses and. churches,
and are supporting them. They have
made the few simple regulations required
to maintain peace .and order and 1.-THE
general consent" The good sense and
Christian spirit which animates Amer
leans have enabled them to found
commonwealth which continues to exist
only by the general suffcrance, but which
now appeals, and ought not to appeal in
vain, to Con gress to give it the shelter OF
United States laws.
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albatross, as though nettle were taller chan
a Lebanon cedar, as though a gnat wore
greater than a camel, as though a minute
we're longer than century, as though time
were igher, deeper, broader than eternity:
So the text which flashed with lightning of
wit as Christ uttered it, is followed by the
crashing thunders of awful catastrophe to
those who make the questions Of time great r
than the questions Of the future, the oncom,
ing, overshadowing future. U, eternlty!
eternityl eternityl
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A Secpssary PrecautiOa.

"Mary," said lady to her maid, 81
am going to take the train tomorrow
morning at six O'clock
"All right, ma'am.'
eyes. And I shall want you, conse.
oucntly, to wake INC up at five o'clock ,
"Ycs'm. But, I-s'pose-'
'What do you suppose, Blary9"
II s'pose you'll ring the bel for me,
ma'am, about quarter to five, so I'll be
sure to be awake to call you at five,
ma'am. - Youths Companion.
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The Disposition Of Animals.


The temper of farm animal as an ele-
ment in determining its value is not
often given the consideration it merits.
The value and usefulness of farm ami
NAL depends almost as much upon the
mental characteristics of the animal as
upon its physical characteristics. A
horse may be muscular and active; but if
it uses its muscles and shows its activity
by kicking the other horses. by running
away with the wagon or plow whenever
the opportunity offers, or by getting over
the best fence on the farm, it is of less
value than horse with less muscle and
activity and more religion. And the
mental part of other domestic animals is
of scarcely less Importance. Yet we 60
on giving our attention to the color of
the hair or the size of the ear or horn,
and altogether neglect the disposition of
the animal. - Western Plo,oman.
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Drunkenness and Labor Troubles


MIR. Powderly, in recent interview In the
New York Herald, is reported az saying:
"There is no disgrace deeper and more
marked than the disgrace that hovers around
the drunkard. They impose upon US in the
Order. They bring ON trouble between EN-
ployers and honest workingmen. They go to
work drunk, are discharged, and, sober1ng
I'D, they appear before their assemblies and
present their grievances. But one side is
heard, and the complainant seems to be much
abused man. Are we justified in keeping
such impostors with usa Can we excuse men
who wilfully neglect their duty as employees
and as wilfully delude their brother work
men3 Yet 1 myself am called upon fire.
quently to take a hand in the settle
ment Of labor troubles attributable to
this cause. Recently had occasion to inter
fere in dispute of large proportions, wherein
the hands sought to sustain one Of their num-
ber who had been discharged. He had repre-.
sented himself as ta1ly treated man, and
had so worked upon the feelings OF his Eel
lows that they supported him at sacrifice
Of work and pay. What did he do to cause
discharged He went to the workshop drunk.
He hung his hat up in strange place, and it
fell down into tub Of valuable liquid, spoil.
ing it. Was that case to make fight on?
/ think not.n GAS I have said before,
the rnm habit is one of our greatest enemies,
and until we get it under control we will have
an uphill struggle to sustain our principles.
deny that l am an outocrat, but in one
thing wish to be. If my word should be law
there would be no more intemperance. and
with no more intemperancs there would be
fewer labor troubles"
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Temperance News and Notes

Rev. Sam Jones says: "Inered signs OF the
bar rooms are more dangerous than anarch'
;sts and communists"
Mrs Mary Clement Leavitt reports the Or
panisation Of the Woman's Christian lem
perance Unions in India.
A witness in a case tried lately in August
Ga, testified that he drinks 'in all ordinary
days bender" from sixteen to twenty-three
quarts Of beer.
Tie National Temperance Society, New
York, gave a reception recently to John lay
lor, President Of tho National temperance
League, Great Britain.
Mr.. s. Rufus Mason, Of Nebraska, tells the
Germantown Telegraph that when the re-,
spectable class set such an example as will
make it n disgrace to be drunk, to drink, to
tin,Ie or to use it in any way, the crops now
raised upon the earth will support twice tho
population.
Mrs. Moffat, assistant National Superinten-
dent of work among soldiers and sailors, has
devised an ingenious way Of enlisting old
soldiers in the temperance work. 1t is mus
ter roll to organize temperate veterans, em-
bodying pledge of total abstinence and alle-
glance to the temperance cause. 1t is hoped
that out of this movement may grow per.
manent and splendid organization OF total
abstainers, local, State, and National.
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Mr.. Anders H. Berg, Methodist, has been
allowed to preach III temperance and Good
Templar sermons in Lutheran state churches
in Sweden during the past year, the govern
ment giving him a free pass over the rail-
roads to advance the temperance cause.
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The peculiar odor of Russia leather is
caused by birch bark tar, the use Of
which is q professional secret.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
At Milking.Time.

FHC ANVtNTTE 1IItC.
SO! so! pretty Brownie, come let it down.
I'll give the more milk to your bossy brownl
You know well enough in yonder stall
Your bossy's the prettiest boss Of them all, {.
With its dark-brown coat and the star on its
brow.
What's this! You insist you must lick it
now:
There! Kiss your little one; now be still
Not yet can the bOssy drink its fill!
Madame calls it Pollux; you know the
name;
'Tis the Latin for Bullock-it's all the same!
Queen Of Ronnania, in Independent.
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themselves are most merciless in their watch
ing Of Others. From scalp Of head to sole Of
foot they are full of jealousies and hypercriti-
cisms. They spend their life in hunting for
muskrats and mud turtles, instead Of hunting
for Rocky Mountain eagles, always for some.
thing mean instead Of something grand,
They look at their neighbors' imperfectic
through microscope and look at their ow.
imperfections through a telescope upside
down, Twenty faults Of their own do not hurt
them so much as one fault of somebody else
Their neighbors' imperfections are like gnats
and they strain them out; their own imperfec-
tions are like camels and they swallow them.
But lest some might think they escape the
scrutiny Of the text, have to tell you that
we all come under the divine satire when we
make the questions Of time more prominent
than the Questions of eternity. Come now,
let US all go into the confessional Are not
all tempted to make the question: Where
shall live nowa greater than the question:
Where shall live forever! How shall l get
more dollars here} greater than the question:
How shall lay up treasures in heaven7 the
question: How shall pay my debts to mani
greater than the question: How shall meet
my obligations to God! the question: How
shall gain the world! greater than the ques-
ton: What if lose my soul! the question:
Why did God let sin come into the worldl
greater than the question, How shall | get
it extirpated from my nature? the question:
What shall / do with the twenty or forty or
seventy years of my sublumar existence (.
greater than the question: What shall do
with the millions of cycles Of my post terres.
trial existence2 Time, how small it is!
Eternity, how vast it is! The former more
Insignificant in comparison with the latter
than gnat is insignificant when compared
with camel We lodged the text. We
said: That doesn't mean me, and that doesn't
mean me-" and with ruinous benevolence
we are giving the whole sermon away.
But let us all surrender to the charge.
What an ado about things here. What poor
a minnow were larger than a behemoth, as
though swallow took wider circuit than an
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-17
A COUNTESS KIDNAPPED.
A BAND OF MASKED MEN SEIZE
Her WHILE
She Is walking In the Bois d
B0ulOgne aud Elude
Pursuit.
THE QUEEN EXCITED ABOUT
The DYNAMITE PLOTS
Arranged to Blow Her Up james
q. Blaine and Wnllsm
O'Brien Arrive.

PARIS, June 16. The Figaro says Q
sensation has bt en- caused in French
high life by the successful kidnapping
of q countess, recently divorced. The
kidnsppeIs wore maiks, the Figaro
says, aud seized the countess as she
was walking in the Bots de Boulogne.
They eluded pursuit, and the pIese OF
whereabouts Of the lady, the paper
Gays, Is unknown except to her cap.
tore, who have manaeed 10 completely
be Gle their pursuers, friends as well
as the police. 1t has been ascertained
that the kidnapped was Countess
Campos, the divorced wife of the Due
de la Tore, q son OF the late Marshal
Serrano Of Spain. The SpsGish Em-
bassy have instituted an energetic
ssarch for the lady, but as yet have no
cisw to her where's bou's.
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Vietorla Excited about Those Dyna.
mite Plots TO Blow Her Up.

LONDON, June 10 The Central Ne,Sl
mskes the following announcement:
The Queen has become alarmed by
the reports that the police bal diecov.
cred that dynamite plots had been ar
ranged to be carried out during jubi'
lee week. The Home Office ausnoh-
ties were angry because the police dis
closed the information about the *.
istencs Of the plos and called upon
them for an ex plsnation. The police,
as an excuse, eaid they made the n a.
ter know in order to deter desper-
ADDE'S from carrying cut any plots
which they may have formed, but
acting under superior orders they now
declare that the only persons they
have bsen watching are Casey and hie
followers, of whose movements they
have kept themselves informed.
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John Bright Apologies TO Glad.
stone.

LONDON, June l6.-Mr. John Bright
has written TO Mr. Gladstone an apol-
ogy for inaccurately quoting his Swan
sea speech, and accusing him OF talk
ing OF Ireland "as IL there was 20 pro.
vince of Ulster" the fact being that
Mr.. Gladstone made long and distinct
reference TO Ulster and It's peculiar in
tereet in the home rule question. Mr..
Bright says he made this "somewbst
inaccurate quotation from memory"
He adds: Il still contend, how ever,
that there lie no hope In Mr.. Glad
stons's promise to consider the case OF
the Ulster Protestsnts In his plan OF
settling the Irish question.
Mr.. Gladstone must know thst any
plan Of dealing with the PIotestants
apart ON the rest Of the population
OF Ulster is impossible. The recent
astounding revelations made by the
Times must have increased the decade
Of Ulster to be subjected to Parnell-
les. The letter concludes as follow. I:
~ grieve that cannot act with you as
In years past, but my enRa cement and
conscience forbid it. II l have said q
word that teens harsh or unfriendly /
will ask you to forgive 1t.
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OINCINN
Tho American Exchange National
hanks huiL.

OISCMNATI, o., Juue l6-Lats this
afternoon The American Exchange
Bank Of Chicago brought Ru attach.
ment suit with application for garni.
shee to recover money belonging to
Irwin Green & Co., Of Ohicsgo, said
to be on deposit Ia the Fidelity Bank
OF Cincinnati. The suit seeks to re-
cover $ll7, S6s so on draft given by
Irwin Gree = 4 o., OF Chicago, to the
American Exchange Bank Of Chicago,
which the Fidelity National Bank OF
Cincinnati refused to honor, on the
ground that Twin Green 4 90. had
no such amount of money on deposit
10 the Fidelity Bank, though they
have some deposits there.